[webkit-dev] Re: webkit accessibility

[David Harrison]

Alexander,

I misunderstood your question. VoiceOver is a client that uses them. I  
don't know whether there are other clients.

There is currently no proposal. Largely, the accessibility interface  
in WebKit on the Mac reflects our work together with the VoiceOver  
team, as they have historically been the sole client. Future work is  
captured in bugs reported internally at Apple.

What are your interests here?

Dave

On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:

> Hi, David.
>
> Did I get you correct, neither clients (like VoiceOver or any screen  
> reader) not servers supports these interfaces? Do you know is  
> anybody going to support them?
>
> You're right that page is not proposal, it just list webkit  
> extension existed in 2006 year. Btw, can you give me more info/point  
> some documentation about lifecycle of proposal?
>
> Alexander.
>
>
> David Harrison wrote:
>> [ adding webkit-dev ]
>>
>> Alexander,
>>
>> That page reads as more of a summary of the current state rather  
>> than any for of proposal.
>>
>> The code is the only documentation at this point.
>>
>> The central files are in http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/browser/trunk/WebCore/bridge/mac
>>
>>    AXObjectCacheMac.mm
>>    WebCoreAXObject.h
>>    WebCoreAXObject.mm
>>
>>
>>    AXObjectCacheMac.h is in the parent "bridge" directory
>>
>>
>> These interfaces are unique to WebKit. They are meant to mirror the  
>> numeric index-based accessibility found in AppKit's text modules,  
>> using a much more efficient interface tailored to html/css content.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Dec 17, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, David.
>>>
>>> I read webkit proposes an extension of Universal Access in order  
>>> to improve accessibility support in browser (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:Accessibility/UniversalAccess:Webkit 
>>> ). Can you point me some documentation/source code where I can get  
>>> up to dated information? Does any software excluding webkit  
>>> support these extensions?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>> Alexander.
>>
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